Android Stories for 2022

EarSpy: Spying On Phone Calls Via Ear Speaker Vibrations Captured By Accelerometer 27
GodFather Android Malware Targets 400 Banks, Crypto Exchanges 7
Android is Adding Support for Updatable Root Certificates Amid TrustCor Scare 19
Google Reports Decline In Android Memory Safety Vulnerabilities As Rust Usage Grows 23
OnePlus Beats Google With Four Years of Major OS Updates 14
Google Says Google and Other Android Manufacturers Haven't Patched Security Flaws 19
Android TV Will Require App Bundles In 2023, Should Reduce App Size By 20% 14
DuckDuckGo's Anti-Tracking Android Tool Could Be 'Even More Powerful' Than iOS 31
A Simple Android Lock Screen Bypass Bug Landed a Researcher $70,000 20
Google Says Surveillance Vendor Targeted Samsung Phones With Zero-Days 5
Google Play To Pilot Third-Party Billing in New Markets Including US 14
Unpaid Volunteers At CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds For Old Android Devices 17
US Govt Employees Exposed To Mobile Attacks From Outdated Android, iOS 18
Amazon and Google Make Peace Over Smart TV Competition 6
Samsung Privacy-Protecting Maintenance Mode Is Coming To Galaxy S22s Worldwide 13
Android Users Alerted Just Before California Earthquake 47
Windows Subsystem for Android Declared Ready for Prime Time 32
Google Pixel 7 Series Only Support 64-bit Apps 29
Trump's Truth Social Now Allowed in Google's Play Store 136
Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled 30
Google is Bringing Passkey Support To Android and Chrome 63
Epic Games and Match Look To Expand Their Antitrust Claims Against Google 11
The Pixel Watch Is Official: $349, Good Looks, and a Four-Year-Old SoC 78
Ask Slashdot: What High-End Smartphone Is Best For Privacy? 196
Chrome for Android Gets Fingerprint-Protected Incognito Tabs 13
Android 13 Raises Minimum System Requirement To 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage 50
Google is Working on 'Clear Calling' For Android Phone Calls 28
Google Announces October 6th Event To Launch the Pixel Watch, Pixel 7 10
Google Launches Third-Party Play Store Billing Pilot, But Only Cuts Fees By 4% 16
Google Play To Ban Android VPN Apps From Interfering With Ads 36
Truth Social's Google Play Store Holdup 158
Will Google's 'Cross-Device' Development Kit Bring Android Apps to Non-Android Devices? 20
The Upcoming Pixel Tablet Could Ship With a 64-Bit Only Version of Android 13 32
Google Releases Android 13, Rolling Out First To Pixel Phones 23
Google To Pay Nearly $43M Over Collection of Android Location Data 13
A Phone Carrier That Doesn't Track Your Browsing Or Location 33
Samsung Finally Starts Selling Parts for Smartphone Repairs at Home. Sort of 23
Google Play Store Removes Version Numbers From Android App Listings 35
Chromebooks With Mobile Data To Act As Wi-Fi Hotspots 15
GeForce Now Rolling Out 120FPS Cloud Gaming To All Compatible Android Smartphones 15
Google Play Store Is Bringing Back the App Permissions List 11
Android Removes Much of Fuchsia-Related Code As Starnix Project Progresses 10
Google Play Hides App Permissions In Favor of Developer-Written Descriptions 33
HTC Quietly Announced a New Android Tablet, and Nobody Noticed 26
BMW Is Switching Gears From Linux To Android Automotive Next Year 54
Google Consolidates Its Chrome and Android Password Managers 6
Apple Exec Says Samsung Copied iPhone and Simply 'Put a Bigger Screen Around It' 129
Email Client K-9 Mail Will Become Thunderbird for Android 46
Google To Combine Meet, Duo Into Single App 19
Murena, the Privacy-First Android Smartphone, Arrives 62
Microsoft's Windows Subsystem For Android Just Got a Big Update 37
Match Group and Google Reach an Interim Compromise Over App Payments 3
FairEmail Developer Calls It Quits After Google Falsely Flags App As Spyware 78
Google Blocks File Manager Total Commander From Allowing Users To Sideload Apps 74
'I Want An iPhone Mini-Sized Android Phone!' 167
Google's New Android Auto Interface Works With Any Screen Size 16
Research Finds Over 1.5 Million 'Abandoned' Mobile Apps 46
Google Play Users In Russia Can No Longer Update Or Download Paid Apps 74
Match Sues Google Over App Store Billing Rules 31
Amazon Kindle Book Purchases Are the Next Google Play Billing Casualty 12
Alibaba Cloud Gets More of Android Working On RISC-V Silicon 28
North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones To Access Forbidden Media 23
Android's App Store Privacy Section Starts Rolling Out Today 14
Google Pixel Watch Leaks After Being Lost and Found At Restaurant 25
Google 'Pixel Watch' Prototype Left Behind in a Restaurant 45
A Bug in Google Messages Might Be Draining Your Battery 24
Google Play To Ban Call-Recording Apps 125
Volla Phone 22 Runs Ubuntu Touch Or a Privacy-Focused Android Fork Or Both 22
The Nord N20 Is OnePlus' Budget Offering For 2022 12
Android Apps on Windows 11 Review 18
Google Quietly Launches Its Awaited 'Switch To Android' App on iOS 29
Google Play Store Cracks Down on Outdated Apps 40
Google Bans Apps With Hidden Data-Harvesting Software 28
Google Play Crackdown Makes Amazon and Others Pull Digital Purchases 39
Google Found To Unfairly Block Rival Payments on India Store 6
Global Science Project Links Android Phones With Satellites To Improve Weather Forecasts 10
Google Working On New Nest Hub With Detachable Tablet Form Factor For 2022 17
Google's CTO of Android Tablets Sees Tablet Sales Passing Laptops 'in the Not Too Distant Future' 45
Google Play To Pilot Third-Party Billing Option Globally, Starting With Spotify 4
Android's Messages, Dialer Apps Quietly Sent Text, Call Info To Google 140
Google's Messages App Can Now Handle iMessage Reactions 18
Samsung Says It Will Release An Update To Address App Throttling Issues 20
Samsung Is Reportedly Throttling the Performance of 10,000 Popular Apps 69
MediaTek Might Have Overtaken Qualcomm In US Android Marketshare 11
Google is Retiring Chrome's Data-saving Lite Mode Next Month, Saying It's No Longer Necessary 26
Qualcomm Will Support AV1 Video Codec In 2023, Report Says 36
Google Could Have Updated the Pixel 3 To Android 13. It Just Didn't Want To. 170
Google to Overhaul Ad-Tracking on Android Phones Used by Billions 22
Google Plans Privacy Changes, but Promises To Not Be Disruptive 9
Android 13 Virtualization Hack Runs Windows (and Doom) In a VM On Android 14
The First Developer Preview of Android 13 Has Arrived 60
Android Messages Beta Starts Properly Displaying iOS Message Reactions 91
Android Malware BRATA Wipes Your Device After Stealing Data 32
'Google Is Forcing Me To Dump a Perfectly Good Phone' 285
Google Hires PayPal Vet to Reset Strategy After Its Banking Retreat 23
Why is Android 12 So Buggy? 80
Google Says iMessage Is Too Powerful 219